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The Pulpit Commentary - John 8:23

Yet this essential divergence is not based on fatalistic grounds, but on moral ones. The argument of the twenty-fourth verse explains the description of vers 23. The ground of this utter alienation is the lack of belief, which will leave them in their sins to die. He said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above. You spring from the lower as opposed to the higher world; you are influenced by considerations drawn from the earthly, sensual, superficial, and transitory. It is not necessary... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 8:23

Ye are from beneath - The expression from bequeath, here, is opposed to the phrase from above. It means, You are of the earth, or are influenced by earthly, sensual, and corrupt passions. You are governed by the lowest and vilest views and feelings, such as are opposed to heaven, and such as have their origin in earth or in hell.I am from above - From heaven. My views are heavenly, and my words should have been so interpreted.Ye are of this world - You think and act like the corrupt men of this... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 8:22-24

John 8:22-24. Then said the Jews Showing at once the great perverseness of their disposition, and their contempt of his declaration; will he kill himself? &c. Thus they made a jest of his threatening, and instead of trembling at his word, turned it into ridicule. He said, Ye are from beneath The slaves of earth, and the heirs of hell; I am from above I am from heaven, and shall quickly return thither; ye are of this world And your treasure and hearts are here; I am not of this... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 8:21-30

90. Belief and unbelief (John 8:21-30)Because the Jews could never get their minds above earthly things, they could never accept Jesus’ claim that he came from God. By rejecting him they lost all chance of having their sins forgiven. They would die in their sins and thereby be excluded from heaven, the place to which Jesus would return after his death and resurrection (John 8:21-26).Most of the people still did not understand how Jesus could be the Son of God, but one day in the near future... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 8:23

ye are from beneath ; i.e. of the earth. See 1 Corinthians 15:47 . The phrase occurs only in this Gospel. from = out from. Greek. ek. App-104 . Compare John 1:46 . from above . Greek ek ton ano (plural) = the heavens. See John 3:13 , John 3:31 ; John 6:33 , John 6:38 , 2 Chronicles 3:1; 2 Chronicles 3:12 Chronicles 3:1 of . Gr ek, as above. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 8:23

And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.This double contrast of himself with his obdurate hearers was stated as an explanation of why it was impossible to reach them with any kind of spiritual message. One might as well have tried to elicit appreciation of Handel's Messiah from a mule as to explain spiritual matters to the Pharisees. Jesus explained it again; but they were not operating on any wavelength that would have permitted... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 8:22-23

John 8:22-23. Will he kill himself, &c.— Our Lord's answer to this question is, Ye are from beneath: "Such a vile insinuation evidently shews what sort of persons you are, and whence you have derived your original: being from the earth, you are the slaves of earth and heirs of hell, obnoxious to all the evil passions wherewith human nature is infested; and from what you feel in yourselves, you fancy that I am capable of murdering myself; but your thought is foolish, as is evident from... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 8:23

23. Ye are from beneath; I am from above—contrasting Himself, not as in :-, simply with earthborn messengers of God, but with men sprung from and breathing an opposite element from His, which rendered it impossible that He and they should have any present fellowship, or dwell eternally together. (Again see on :-; also see on John 8:44). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 8:12-59

5. The light of the world discourse 8:12-59Following Jesus’ claim to be the water of life (John 7:37-38), official opposition against Him intensified considerably. The following sections of this Gospel trace this rising opposition. While some believed on Jesus, most of His own people rejected Him (cf. John 1:11-12). This section of the text deals with Jesus’ claim to be the Light of the World and the controversy it generated. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 8:21-30

Jesus’ claims about His origin 8:21-30Jesus began to contrast Himself and His critics. read more

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